''In Paradise'' (Swedish: ''I paradis...'') is a 1941 Swedish

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directed by

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and starring

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and Georg Rydeberg.Qvist & Von Bagh p.105 It was shot at the Centrumateljéerna Studios in Stockholm. The film's sets were designed by the art director Bertil Duroj.

Synopsis

A handsome

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has developed a reputation as a

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and he is hounded by women under this misapprehension. To escape from them he travels out to an isolated island.

Cast

* Einar Beyron as Adam Tomson *

as Birgitta Vendel *

as Angelica Jansson * Birgitta Valberg as Marianne * Georg Rydeberg as Leo Flykt *

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as Aunt Augusta * Fritiof Billquist as Oscar *

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as Klara * Hilding Gavle as 'Blixten' * Nils Lundell as Lasse * Nils Ohlin as Bernhard * Harry Roeck Hansen as Jansson

References

Bibliography

* Qvist, Per Olov & von Bagh, Peter. ''Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland''. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.

External links

* 1941 films Swedish comedy films 1941 comedy films 1940s Swedish-language films Films directed by Per Lindberg Swedish black-and-white films 1940s Swedish films {{1940s-Sweden-film-stub